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Addressing a property conference, Chief Minister Atishi said Delhi residents from children to the aged are facing galore problems owed to pollution. (Express photograph by Amit Mehra)
Chief Minister Atishi said Monday that Delhi-NCR is facing a terrible aesculapian exigency owed to rising aerial contamination and accused the BJP-led cardinal authorities of not taking immoderate factual enactment to lick the contented of stubble burning which has lone accrued successful the past 5 years.
Addressing a property conference, she said Delhi residents from children to the aged are facing galore problems owed to pollution. “All of North India has been plunged into a aesculapian exigency arsenic stubble burning continues unchecked crossed the country. All cities crossed the state – successful UP, Bihar, Rajasthan, Haryana, MP and Delhi – are reeling nether terrible levels of pollution,” she said.
“Despite the rising severity of stubble burning crossed India for the past 5 years, the cardinal authorities has taken nary factual measurement to curb the same. All of North India is paying the terms for this, particularly children and aged who are struggling to breathe,” Atishi added.
The main curate claimed that the lone authorities that has managed to curb stubble burning is Punjab which saw 36,000 workplace fires past year, which dropped from 71,300 successful 2021. This twelvemonth lone 8,404 incidents person been recorded.
“Ninety per cent of workplace fires person reduced successful Punjab. Whereas, UP has seen a 60 per cent increase. Farm fires person accrued successful Haryana. Why is the Centre not taking enactment against these states and implementing factual steps? People are incapable to breathe… I americium getting calls from radical complaining astir breathing and respiratory issues. But for the BJP it has lone go a blasted game,” Atishi said.
Meanwhile, Delhi BJP spokesperson Harish Khurana said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), alternatively of taking responsibility, blames different states. “Punjab is present ruled by the AAP, truthful she volition not speech astir that state. But she volition blasted neighbouring states. Delhi radical are bittersweet and facing problems for the past 10 years since the AAP took charge,” Khurana claimed.
Stage 4 restrictions nether the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) person been implemented successful Delhi starting Monday arsenic the aerial prime scale (AQI) crossed 480 successful respective areas.
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